We offer guidance, support, signposting and friendship to all asylum seekers, refugees and diaspora. Liverpool Lighthouse is an arts and community centre. They run a community programme that offers arts activities to improve wellbeing and mental health, alongside practical support with a fresh food pantry, advice and support when needed and a warm place to have a cuppa and a chat. They can also offer English language classes.
The Greater Manchester Women’s Support Alliance (GMWSA) acts as a strategic support system for services that help women overcome any challenges they might be facing with domestic abuse, homelessness, mental health and substance misuse.
We offer a range of well being and emotional support including the following groups: gardening, cycling, sewing, cooking, monthly indoor climbing, a dignity shop and a donations and distribution team for household items.
We offer:
- Advocacy and advice across a broad area and Immigration advice (OISC1) and support, including student placements.
- Alleviation of destitution through the provision of food, clothing and housing. A Complex Needs Social Worker assists asylum seekers with needs additional to destitution.
- Working with the Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit, we provide Family Reunion Visa Applications and Further Submissions assistance.
- ESOL classes with two walk-in classes, one for conversation and one for women only at our site. We also hold 80 places for English classes across the week with enrolment each September.
- Access to 2nd hand clothing, shoes, kitchen-ware and other donated items, daily except Wednesday.
- Encouragement to asylum seekers and refugees to become volunteers and to engage with their new community.
- Social events to encourage integration and friendship – Refugee Week, Christmas, trips and visits to other venues, cycle programmes and hill walks and several football initiatives.
- Well-being projects: bicycle repair, gardening and allotments, cooking demonstrations with other local groups. A Women’s group and a Choir run on Thursdays. Action Asylum projects actively place Asylum Seekers in volunteering roles with non-asylum organisations including beach/park cleans, tree planting, creative writing projects, indoor climbing and arts projects. We now work in 5 other cities with this programme.
- Input from other agencies including the NHS Community Inclusion Team giving access to GPs and dentists. Access to other healthcare: Covid Vaccination, Sight Tests, Blood Pressure and AF Testing can be sourced through the centre. The Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit, Merseyside Refugee Support Network deliver advice from our building.
- Information and Research opportunities include working with Liverpool University on a Mental Health feasibility study and surveys for the NHS.
- The Asylum Information Roadshow, School Presentations and Social Work Training. These are wide ranging presentations to schools, voluntary sector groups, universities, local authorities, seminars and conferences.
The Charity promotes multiculturalism the Furness area. It does this through promoting multicultural events and providing access to services for BME people. It aims to re-establish a multicultural drop-in centre for people from all cultures to meet and celebrate each others’ cultures in comfort and safety. It runs a multicultural youth group for children and young people in the area.
“We support and advocate for Ethnic Communities within Stockport including Refugees. Support with 1-1 advocacy, housing, Health, Employment Benefits. Culturally appropriate foodbank Activity based work, e.g. Sewing Club, Children activities, Volunteer Training, Drama, Women’s Group, Choir Black Mens group Conversational English session. Immigration Surgery
General casework. We provide asylum support and referral to other organisations and solicitors. We help with housing problems, missed NASS payments, accessing GPs and other situations which might arise.
Clothing. We provide free second-hand clothing for homeless asylum seekers and cheap clothing for those in support/those in need.
English Classes. We refer people to other ESOL providers in your local community.
We support you with your education queries in the UK.
The Yemeni Community Associations’ (YCA) main mission is to pursue for a positive change amongst BAME communities within Salford and Greater Manchester in social engagement, equality, inclusion, community cohesion and physical and mental wellbeing.
In addition, it aims to tackle community safety, hate crime, low attainment in education and to promote learning opportunities, but to also directly assist with welfare and digital needs with the intention of allowing beneficiaries in becoming more socially independent. This includes services and activities that target education provision, youth provision, Adult provision, single gender provision, health provision, skills and work provision and welfare and debt advice.
All YCA’s activities and services are carried out in partnership with an extensive range of agencies established over decades of service. We are the first port of call in many situations due to our extensive insight into BAME communities and are known to go above and beyond in the service of those most in need.